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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Sunday, December 19, 2010

This week is going to be a hectic hustle for many of us: last minute gifts, travel, and, of course, dealing with the in-laws. So remember: when the stress gets too much, and the urge to throttle a relation becomes a little too overwhelming, just think of today's Sweets. They'll be sure to make you smile.

Or maybe just distract you long enough for your significant other to wrestle the broken gin bottle out of your hand.

Either way: a win, win.

Submitted by Paula J., and made by her husband.(Awww!)

Proof that sometimes it's the little things, and that amateur bakers can still rock the house.

Or, for those of you who prefer your holiday eye-candy with a side of creepy, Bleeding Heart Bakery has you covered:

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I was wondering what an Ent had to do with Christmas, and then realized that was a Christmas Tree crowned with lights and surrounded by a gang of ornaments thugs! Though I couldn't tell what the snowglobe in his hand contained.

You were right. The stuck Santa was good for a laugh and a small squee.

I wonder if the pinecones were dry and crunchy like icing roses. If it was dry, you had two options: nibble layer by layer or pop the whole thing in your mouth (say, how big are those things anyway?) and wait for them to melt. Pure sugar.

The blue cake is gorgeous (!), and the Curious George on made me squeal like 4 year old. Too. fracking. cute! But I think I like the first one best - it's so cute, but just a little imperfect - the snowman's eyes are just a tad off, the hat isn't quite perfect, etc. The teensey imperfections make it extra adorable! Love it!

Wow, love the Bleeding Heart Bakery creepy tree cake. On top of the great decorations, the fact that he's holding a snow globe blows me away. And for those who haven't noticed, you can click on an image to see a (usually) larger picture. Thanks for the great cakes!

Hi Jen,My family had our Christmas celebration yesterday & I just wanted to tell you that the Cakewrecks calendars were a BIG hit! I got them for all my sibs and they LOL'd, snorted, & wheezed their way thru them. Thanks for giving us all a year of delicious wreckiness! :-) Hali

Amazingly gorgeous! I often look at your posts via facebook link, though I'm also subscribed to the blog. The posts that make me delve into the older posts are usually the "Sunday Sweets" editions. They also make me check the links to the bakeries you post. FABULOUS collection again! Thank you!

why am I totally NOT surprised that the Amish cake shop is fondant free?? Had to laugh, when I went to visit my folks in Nov. Bird In Hand Bake shop was the first place I found Drages in the store in YEARS!!!

Great stuff! The pine cone is gorgeous, love the Santa-in-a-chimney, the two different sized eyes on the first snowman (awww!) The snowman hat on George's cake! And the frosted tree gave me goosebumps!

I must thank you for introducing us to the Sandra Lee Kwanzaa and Hanukkah cakes btw. What a belly laugh. (The Hanukkah cake got so many complaints they pulled the recipe from the website! could it be the non-kosher marshmallows and non-star of David Star of David? or the choking hazard pearls?)

Have you ever seen her masterpiece, her "Gramma's Heirloom Noel Cake"?

Multiple cake layers, topped by a cupcake, topped by a white chocolate covered ice cream cone. all tinted pale green (took a while to realize this thing is supposed to be a tree). licorice "garland" (I presume), red dots piped on (ornaments? Thank goodness she used icing and not some more inedible choking hazard pearls). Ugly yellow star tip blobs with "noel" (birthday) candles put in them and lit.

She calls her icing between layers (which doesn't even fill between to the edges) "adhesive." And as she shows us 6 cake rounds and a cupcake in chocolate and spice flavors she bought as boxed mixes in the store, "It smells so good in here and I didn't have to bake a THING!" (so how the heck did the boxed mix become cake rounds?)

So Merry Christmas, from Sandra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW8W48KZ3J0

Meanwhile, this morning I saw her violate a defenseless cupcake. she chopped off the top, scooped out the middle, and filled it with cherry pie filling. then she surrounded it with aluminum foil (for beautiful presentation. foil, really?) then with white icing, star tipped around the perimeter of the cherry mound, sprinkled green sprinkles (so light I didn't even see them at first), then added a fruit roll strip bow with a cinnamon candy in the middle. and she put it on the side. it looked like a face with a mustache to me with the red hot as the nose. sadly, I can't find a picture or video yet...

Let's see... I may have to rethink my opinion of blue icing after seeing that tree cake. It isn't what is in the bag that makes the wreck, it is who is holding the bag. So to speak.

Wow -- edible pine cones. As in 'eating this was a good idea,' not 'my entire digestive tract is going to punish me now and for weeks to come. Thank you very little, Mr. Gibbons.' I think many of us know of someone who might use real pine cones because they happened to be on hand.

Poor Tyler. On the other hand, if your birthday has to be in the shadow of someone else's birthday, what better place to be?

Was this Tyler's 4th or 21st birthday? I'm going with my first hunch and say, 'fourth'.

This will be the first Christmas in 21 years without my nephew who passed away in October. He was born with only 3/4 of a heart and had many painful surgeries in his short life. His nickname was *Superman* and he was exactly that: a hero. Many times he went through painful procedures just to increase knowledge on his rare condition to help others. Needless to say, it has been hard to have any holiday spirit this year. I just can't help but smile, though, every time I look at your site and these Sweets made that tingle in my heart which I have been missing.

I so look forward to Sunday sweets so much! The armature cake is simply cute, and to be honest the best part is it seems so doable. My favorite has to be the Icy tree cake, it looks so beautiful. While I did find the Santa stuck in a chimney cake was funny, the most hilarious one had to be the elf on top of the tree, considering where the tip of that tree has to be, LOL

I was looking at the post and my daughter kept saying "Awww! That is soooo cute!" Then she had to call her brothers in to see the cakes too!

And the charity is perfect. I delivered the kids in a children's hospital and though it was stressful and awful but wonderful and beautiful to bring 4 healthy babies home. I can't imagine spending Christmas there with the memory walls haunting every hallway of the NICU.

The families there need much more than some presents but if a few toys make the children smile, then I wish my donation had been multiplied by about a million.

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